Foxwoods expanding poker room, but is the market drawing dead?
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Foxwoods Resort Casino will dramatically increase the size of what is already one of the nation’s largest poker rooms this month, an expansion that comes even as industry experts say the poker market is slowing.
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Poker lexicon:
- TABLE STAKES - A standard rule whereby during a hand players can only bet the money they have on the table. If the bet to a player is more than the player's stack, that player may call with all his chips and be eligible to win only that portion of the pot he contributed to equally. A side pot is created, for which only the remaining players may compete.
- UNDERDOG - Before all the cards are dealt, a hand that does not figure to be the winner. Ant: FAVORITE.
- OMAHA - A variant of Hold'em where each player receives 4 hole cards and must use exactly two of them (together with 3 of 5 board cards) to make a hand. Often played high-low split with an 8 qualifier for low.
- SIDE POT - When an active player runs out of money during the course of a hand, the remaining players participate in a second or SIDE POT for the rest of the hand. Additional side pots are possible if several players run out of money at different points in a hand.
- FREE CARD - A card dealt after all players checked in a betting round.
- POCKET PAIR - Generic Hold'em term for 2 hole cards of the same rank.
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